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| | The Lindisfarne Gospels |
 | | Meanwhile, against the background of all of this, the mile-long queue that perpetually snakes around the quad at Trinity was there waiting to pass by the dimly lit mystical object itself, for reason of devotion, of cultural tourism, nationalism, or with whatever motivation. |
 | | We know that at the cult of St Bridget at Kildare another great gospel book was displayed--Giraldus Cambrensis, Gerald of Wales, writing about it in the twelfth century says that its craftsmanship was so intricate you would think it the work not of man but of angels. |
 | | And what seems to happen is that the Durham Gospel scribe corrects the Durham Gospels once, but then what has not really been taken on board is that he comes back to it and corrects it a second time following the new text of Lindisfarne or its model. |
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